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Few shot learning is an important problem in machine learning as large labelled datasets take considerable time and effort to assemble. Most few-shot learning algorithms suffer from one of two limitations- they either require the design of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-04-12 Shakti Kumar , Hussain Zaidi

We study the few-shot learning (FSL) problem, where a model learns to recognize new objects with extremely few labeled training data per category. Most of previous FSL approaches resort to the meta-learning paradigm, where the model…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-08 Zejiang Hou , Sun-Yuan Kung

Deep neural networks (DNNs) are sensitive to adversarial examples, resulting in fragile and unreliable performance in the real world. Although adversarial training (AT) is currently one of the most effective methodologies to robustify DNNs,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-01 Yize Li , Pu Zhao , Xue Lin , Bhavya Kailkhura , Ryan Goldhahn

It is an important yet challenging setting to continually learn new tasks from a few examples. Although numerous efforts have been devoted to either continual learning or few-shot learning, little work has considered this new setting of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Liyuan Wang , Qian Li , Yi Zhong , Jun Zhu

Performing knowledge transfer from a large teacher network to a smaller student is a popular task in modern deep learning applications. However, due to growing dataset sizes and stricter privacy regulations, it is increasingly common not to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-11-27 Paul Micaelli , Amos Storkey

The goal of few-shot classification is to classify new categories with few labeled examples within each class. Nowadays, the excellent performance in handling few-shot classification problems is shown by metric-based meta-learning methods.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-08-02 Xu Luo , Yuxuan Chen , Liangjian Wen , Lili Pan , Zenglin Xu

Despite its astounding success in learning deeper multi-dimensional data, the performance of deep learning declines on new unseen tasks mainly due to its focus on same-distribution prediction. Moreover, deep learning is notorious for poor…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-15 Hassan Gharoun , Fereshteh Momenifar , Fang Chen , Amir H. Gandomi

Few-shot learning focuses on learning a new visual concept with very limited labelled examples. A successful approach to tackle this problem is to compare the similarity between examples in a learned metric space based on convolutional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-06 Heda Song , Mercedes Torres Torres , Ender Özcan , Isaac Triguero

We present a generic and flexible Reinforcement Learning (RL) based meta-learning framework for the problem of few-shot learning. During training, it learns the best optimization algorithm to produce a learner (ranker/classifier, etc) by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-05-05 Raviteja Anantha , Stephen Pulman , Srinivas Chappidi

Few-shot relation classification (RC) is one of the critical problems in machine learning. Current research merely focuses on the set-ups that both training and testing are from the same domain. However, in practice, this assumption is not…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-05-26 Jirui Qi , Richong Zhang , Chune Li , Yongyi Mao

Meta-learning (ML) has emerged as a promising learning method under resource constraints such as few-shot learning. ML approaches typically propose a methodology to learn generalizable models. In this work-in-progress paper, we put the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-03-07 Aroof Aimen , Sahil Sidheekh , Vineet Madan , Narayanan C. Krishnan

In few-shot learning, the selection of samples has a significant impact on the performance of the model. While effective sample selection strategies are well-established in supervised settings, research on large language models largely…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Branislav Pecher , Ivan Srba , Maria Bielikova , Joaquin Vanschoren

Adversarial training is by far the most successful strategy for improving robustness of neural networks to adversarial attacks. Despite its success as a defense mechanism, adversarial training fails to generalize well to unperturbed test…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-10-18 Yogesh Balaji , Tom Goldstein , Judy Hoffman

Few-shot learning is challenging due to its very limited data and labels. Recent studies in big transfer (BiT) show that few-shot learning can greatly benefit from pretraining on large scale labeled dataset in a different domain. This paper…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-12-11 Suichan Li , Dongdong Chen , Yinpeng Chen , Lu Yuan , Lei Zhang , Qi Chu , Nenghai Yu

Few-shot image classification aims to accurately classify unlabeled images using only a few labeled samples. The state-of-the-art solutions are built by deep learning, which focuses on designing increasingly complex deep backbones.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Na Chen , Xianming Kuang , Feiyu Liu , Kehao Wang , Qun Chen

Few-shot segmentation (FSS) aims to segment unseen classes given only a few annotated samples. Existing methods suffer the problem of feature undermining, i.e. potential novel classes are treated as background during training phase. Our…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-09-28 Lihe Yang , Wei Zhuo , Lei Qi , Yinghuan Shi , Yang Gao

Contrastive self-supervised learning methods learn to map data points such as images into non-parametric representation space without requiring labels. While highly successful, current methods require a large amount of data in the training…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-23 Ali Lotfi Rezaabad , Sidharth Kumar , Sriram Vishwanath , Jonathan I. Tamir

Few-shot learning (FSL) has recently been extensively utilized to overcome the scarcity of training data in domain-specific visual recognition. In real-world scenarios, environmental factors such as complex backgrounds, varying lighting…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-02-04 Qianyu Guo , Jingrong Wu , Tianxing Wu , Haofen Wang , Weifeng Ge , Wenqiang Zhang

This paper proposes an attack-independent (non-adversarial training) technique for improving adversarial robustness of neural network models, with minimal loss of standard accuracy. We suggest creating a neighborhood around each training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-28 Bronya Roni Chernyak , Bhiksha Raj , Tamir Hazan , Joseph Keshet

Deep neural networks have been able to outperform humans in some cases like image recognition and image classification. However, with the emergence of various novel categories, the ability to continuously widen the learning capability of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-07-31 Nihar Bendre , Hugo Terashima Marín , Peyman Najafirad